10/03/2026
I've taken many CPR classes over the years, but I was never told this...
When you're alone and have a heart attack. What are you gonna do then?
A very good post that can't be shared enough:
1. Take a 2-minute break and read this:
Let's just say it's 5:25 pm and you're driving home after an unusually hard day's work.
2. You are very tired and frustrated.
All of a sudden your chest hurts. They are starting to radiate to the arm and jaw. It feels like you're being stabbed right in the chest and heart. You're a few miles from the hospital or nearest home.
3. Unfortunately, you don't know if you can do it.
4. You may have taken CPR training, but the person running the course hasn't told you how to help yourself.
5. How do you survive a heart attack when you're alone when it happens? A person who feels weak and whose heart beats fast has only about 10 seconds before losing consciousness.
6. But you can help yourself by coughing repeatedly and really hard! Deep breaths before each cough. Coughing should repeat every second until you get to the hospital or until your heart starts beating normally.
7. Deep breathing gives oxygen to your lungs and cough movements increase your heart and blood circulation. Heart pressure also helps to restore a normal heartbeat. Here's how victims of cardiac arrest can get to the hospital for proper treatment
8. Cardiologists say if someone receives this message and passes it on to 10 people, we can expect to save at least one life.
9. FOR WOMEN: You should know that women have additional and different symptoms. They rarely have chest pain or arm pain.
You also feel indigestion and tension in the back of the bra line plus sudden fatigue.
Instead of posting jokes, today we are perhaps helping save lives by spreading this message.
❤️ COPY (hold your finger, click on the text and select copy, go to your own page and where you usually want to write, select your finger again and paste).
